00:02Hello, everyone. Thank you very much.
00:05It's been a very big two days, I have to say.
00:10And we'll be heading back to Washington, D.C. right after this.
00:15And I'd like to wish everyone a very good evening.
00:18And over the weekend, the United States military
00:21and the Israeli Defense Forces continued Operation Epic Fury very successfully.
00:27Over the past nine days, we've carried out some of the most powerful
00:31and complex military strikes and maneuvers the world has ever seen.
00:36Now, you add that up to all of the other things.
00:39Midnight hammer, getting rid of the nuclear threat from Iran,
00:44which was a big moment in history, in my opinion.
00:48And the great success we've had in Venezuela and all other places.
00:53Every place we've gone, we've had tremendous success.
00:56But while we're doing all of these things,
00:59we're achieving major strides toward completing our military objective.
01:05And some people could say they're pretty well complete.
01:08We've wiped every single force in Iran out very completely.
01:15Most of Iran's naval power has been sunk.
01:19Sunk. It's on the bottom of the sea.
01:21It's almost 50 ships.
01:24I was just notified it's 51 ships.
01:26I didn't know they had that many.
01:28Didn't last very long.
01:30And these are fighting vessels.
01:33They're meant to fight, but they're not meant to fight against us.
01:37We continue to target Iran's drone and missile capabilities.
01:41Their drones are way down.
01:43Their drone manufacturing has been hit starting today.
01:47We know all of the places they manufacture the drones,
01:51and they're being hit one after another.
01:53Their missile capability is down to about 10 percent, maybe less.
01:59We're also hitting where they make missiles and where they deliver missiles.
02:04We've struck over 5,000 targets to date, some of them very major targets.
02:09And we've left some of the most important targets for later in case we need to do it.
02:14If we hit them, it's going to take many years for them to be rebuilt,
02:18having to do with electricity production and many other things.
02:23So we're not looking to do that if we don't have to.
02:27But they're the kind of things that are very easy to hit,
02:29but very devastating if they are hit.
02:31We are waiting to see what happens before we hit them.
02:36We could take them all out in one day.
02:38But it's all resulting in a 90 percent decline in various things,
02:44but in particular Iranian missile launchers and 83 percent drop in drone launchers.
02:51As you know, the drone launchers are pretty well shot.
02:56But we're at over 90 percent decline in the Iranian missile launchers,
03:01which is very hard to reproduce and very hard to get.
03:06And usually what we were able to do through great equipment,
03:11a lot of smart people, as soon as they sent a missile up from a launcher,
03:16we were able to knock out that launcher within a period of five minutes or less.
03:21Accurately right on the noggin.
03:24So now we have low cost interceptors effectively combating Iranian drones.
03:29And our B-2 bombers recently dropped dozens of 2,000 pound bombs to destroy missile launchers all over Iran.
03:38And very deep under Iranian soil in many cases.
03:42The soil was no match.
03:44And we're also annihilating the manufacturing base that the regime uses to build drones and missiles at a rate that
03:52nobody thought was possible.
03:53We're knocking them out.
03:54We know where they all are.
03:56We're knocking them out very quickly.
03:58We're ahead of our initial timeline by a lot.
04:01I would say that we probably would not have thought after a month we'd be here.
04:06In addition to the fact that we've taken out the leadership twice and maybe three times.
04:14And we, as you know, we want to be involved.
04:18We don't want another president that maybe wouldn't be willing to do what I'm willing to do for the good
04:22of the world,
04:23for the good of our nation, to be stuck with the situation in five years or 10 years from now.
04:28So we think they should put a president in or the head of the country in that's going to be
04:34able to do something peacefully for a change.
04:36They've been doing this for 47 years, killing people for 47 years.
04:41Whether it's the barracks or even the SS coal where they were involved, very strongly they always denied it.
04:48But where they were very strongly involved.
04:51And all of the people that died through the roadside bombs died and are right now walking around with no
04:57legs, no arms.
04:59A face that's been so badly damaged.
05:01The Iranian regime has been attacking Americans and spreading terror for 47 years.
05:08And despite these countless opportunities to renounce their nuclear ambitions, which they had just a short while ago,
05:16they told Mr. Witkoff, who is standing right over here, they said, they actually said,
05:23we want to keep building essentially in a real nutshell, we want to continue to build nuclear weapons.
05:30If we didn't knock out Midnight Hammer, if we didn't knock out their Iranian potential,
05:35if we didn't do that with Midnight Hammer, they would have had a nuclear weapon.
05:39They would have used it long before now.
05:41And at a minimum, Israel would have been annihilated.
05:45I was very lucky that we had the courage to do that.
05:49That we had the talented pilots and the great equipment.
05:52The B-2 bombers are unbelievable.
05:54We ordered 25 more, by the way.
05:57The newer, better version.
06:02We have the greatest military in the world.
06:04We have the greatest equipment in the world by far.
06:07You see that no matter where we go.
06:09You still need the people, though, to operate it and to use it.
06:12And those are the people that we cherish.
06:15Even after we obliterated their key nuclear sites in operation,
06:20Midnight Hammer, they never negotiated in good faith.
06:23They still continued to say, we want to build nuclear.
06:27We want enrichment at levels that were unacceptable.
06:30And they even turned down an offer for unlimited free nuclear fuel forever
06:35for civilian purposes.
06:37We had people offering them free nuclear fuel.
06:42They weren't interested in that because they wanted to build a nuclear weapon.
06:46So, instead, the regime was trying to reconstitute its weapons program at a different site.
06:52They couldn't go back to where they were, the three sites that we obliterated.
06:57But they were starting work at another site, a different site, a different kind of a site.
07:02And that was protected by granite.
07:05They wanted it protected.
07:06Granite's pretty good.
07:08But they wanted it protected by a lot deeper.
07:12They wanted to go a lot deeper.
07:13And they started the process while rapidly building conventional ballistic missiles.
07:19They were going to do it all at the same time.
07:21It threatened our overseas bases and soon could have reached even our homeland.
07:26The regime's intention was to use this exponentially growing ballistic missile threat to make it virtually impossible to prevent them
07:34from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
07:36So, as you probably saw, they had a tremendous number of missiles, most of which have now been used or
07:44destroyed.
07:46And very unsuccessfully used because we have been able, for the most part, to shoot them all down.
07:52What incredible technology.
07:54The patriots have been unbelievable.
07:56And other things.
07:58And the laser technology that we have now is incredible.
08:01It's coming out pretty soon.
08:03We're literally lasers will do the work of, at a lot less cost, do the work of what the patriots
08:10are doing or what other things are doing.
08:12The situation was very quickly approaching.
08:15The point of no return and the United States found it intolerable, in my opinion, based on what Steve and
08:23Jared and Pete and others were telling me.
08:26Marko was so involved that I thought that they were going to attack us.
08:30I thought they would.
08:31If we didn't do this at the time we did it, I think they had in mind to attack us.
08:35And if you notice, they did something which was very foolish, very stupid, I would say.
08:40They attacked their neighbors.
08:42And their neighbors were largely neutral, or at least weren't going to be involved.
08:49And they got attacked.
08:51And it had the reverse effect.
08:53The neighbors came onto our side and started attacking them.
08:57And actually, quite successfully.
09:00If you look at Saudi Arabia, you look at UAE, Qatar, and others.
09:07But they were strong and they were smart.
09:09But they got attacked.
09:11Nobody — when I first heard it, I said, no, somebody made a mistake.
09:14There was no mistake.
09:16UAE had over a thousand missiles shot at it.
09:20Knocked them almost all down.
09:22On the very first day I came down the escalator in 2015, I said, quote,
09:28I will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
09:31And all I'm doing is keeping my promise.
09:34Think of that. That was in 2015 I said it.
09:37It was a threat then and a much bigger threat now.
09:40But no longer a threat. Not for a long time, anyway.
09:43We want to keep it that way.
09:45As we continue Operation Epic Fury, we're also focused on keeping energy and oil flowing to the world.
09:53And I will not allow a terrorist regime to hold the world hostage and attempt to stop the globe's oil
09:59supply.
10:00And if Iran does anything to do that, they'll get hit at a much, much harder level.
10:05I will take out those targets that were easy and that I mentioned just before.
10:10We'll take them out so quickly.
10:11They'll never be able to recover.
10:13Ever.
10:14If they want to play that game, they better not play that game.
10:17In the long run, oil supplies will be dramatically more secure without the threat of Iranian ships,
10:23drones, missiles, nuclear menace, or anything.
10:27So the Strait of Hormuz is going to remain safe.
10:33We have a lot of Navy ships there.
10:35We have the best equipment in the world inspecting for mines.
10:41Again, most of their ships are down at the bottom of the sea.
10:43But we will hit them so hard that it will not be possible for them or anybody else helping them
10:51to ever recover that section of the world if they do anything.
10:55In recent years, the regime and its terror proxies have launched attacks on hundreds of commercial vessels.
11:03We're putting an end to all of this threat once and for all.
11:06And the result will be lower oil prices, oil and gas prices for American families.
11:13We've done that.
11:13We've done it.
11:14We brought it very low.
11:15This was just an excursion into something that had to be done.
11:19We're getting very close to finishing that, too.
11:21In the meantime, during this brief disruption, the United States is offering political risk insurance to any tankers operating in
11:29the Gulf.
11:29So we're putting up risk insurance.
11:31We'll perhaps go alongside of them for protection.
11:37We don't think it'll be necessary if it is.
11:40And if they do anything, the price will be incalculable.
11:45It will be so great that they will have wished they never did it.
11:50Because you have to keep the straits flowing.
11:54With all of that, it affects other countries much more than it does the United States.
11:58It doesn't really affect us.
11:59We have so much oil.
12:00We have tremendous oil and gas, much more than we need.
12:04We have Venezuela now as our new partner, great partner.
12:08They've worked out so wonderful.
12:10We're working with the administration, the President.
12:13And it's a massive source of oil, gas, everything.
12:21But we're in a very good position, but very unfair to other parts of the world.
12:26Like China, as an example.
12:28I mean, we're doing this for the other parts of the world, including countries like China.
12:32They get a lot of their oil through the straits.
12:36So we're doing this.
12:37We have a very good relationship with President Xi and China.
12:40I'm going there in a short period of time.
12:42And we're protecting the world from what these lunatics are trying to do.
12:50And very successfully, I might add.
12:52We're also waiving certain oil-related sanctions to reduce prices.
12:57So we have sanctions on some countries.
12:59We're going to take those sanctions off until this straightens out.
13:03Then who knows?
13:04Maybe we won't have to put them on.
13:05There'll be so much peace.
13:07But when the time comes, the U.S. Navy and its partners will escort tankers through the strait,
13:11if needed.
13:12I hope it's not going to be needed.
13:14But if it's needed, we'll escort them right through.
13:17And we have the greatest mind-sweeping ability.
13:20We have the greatest ships and all of them.
13:22We know exactly where they're placed.
13:24We'll get them out of there very fast.
13:26But we hope we don't have any of that.
13:28And again, if they do that, if they play that game,
13:30we're going to hit them at a level that they have not seen before.
13:34So we're winning very decisively.
13:38We're way ahead of schedule.
13:42Our military is the greatest in the world, with the greatest equipment and the greatest
13:45people in the world.
13:47Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
13:49Iran is a very powerful country.
13:51They were going to take over the Middle East.
13:53If we did not hit them, they were going to take over the Middle East.
13:57They had thousands and thousands.
13:58Since their last hit, they had thousands and thousands of missiles and everything else.
14:04Most are now destroyed.
14:07But they were going to take over the Middle East.
14:09Those weapons were aimed at Middle Eastern countries that had nothing to do with this.
14:15They were going to take over the Middle East and they were going to try and destroy Israel.
14:19So we stopped it with good timing.
14:23And we're very proud to be involved in this.
14:25And it's going to be ended soon.
14:28And if it starts up again, they'll be hit even harder.
14:32And they always stopped a lot of it in the way that can end our lives.
14:32But if it happened, many more weeks ago...
14:34Now the grandpa.
14:35The young brother almost discovered thele.
14:36And there were twoished women and people.
14:38And he wanted to make over the Middle East.
14:39You wanted to be the resident of the burnt East.
14:39And there was meow and one of the highlight of the appendFit Historical population.
14:39You
